13. Dbegea. ] ASCLEPIADACEM 



rarely cordate but scarcely lobed sometimes acute base, greeD 

 rotate flowers J" diam. and stout follicles 3-4" by 1-1|" diam. 



Manbhum, Palamau, in scrub jungle. Fls. June. 



Usually hoary with a fine curled pubescence, and L. 3-6" by 2-4$ '' 

 etrongly nerved, often glandular at the base of the mid-rib above ; 

 petiole 1-3' with generally a curved thickened base. Fls. in dense 

 umbels which are sometimes several on short branches, pedicel* £-!'',, 

 peduncles 1-3*. Calyx 5-partits, sepals T y ovate oblong obtuse.' 

 Petals broadly oblong, longer than the tube, pubescent outside. Column 

 rery short truncate, cjronai-processes sub-globose horizontal. 



This also yields an excellent fibre. 



14. Hoya, Br. 

 1. H. pendula, Wight. 



A climber with twiggy pendulous branches oblong fleshy 

 smooth shining leaves with the venation not visible, and 

 white flowers f" diam. with a truncate stellate corona in 

 short-peduncled pendulous umbels. 



Parasnath, Anders, A Singbhum Hoya, not collected, maybe this. 



15. Ceropegia, L. 

 1. C. hirsuta, w % 8r A. 



A hirsute climber with pale spreading' hairs, lanceolate 

 leaves np to 5" by 1|" with rounded base and tubular flowers 

 If long with a ventricose base and sub-erect oblong obtuse 

 ciliate petals. 



Manbhum, near Pokhuria, Camp.Herb. ! Fls-, Fr. Aug. 



Fls. greenish blotched with purple. Follicles erecto-patent 3". 



I Fam. 76. SOLOACEE. 



Herbs or shrubs with alternate simple, entire lobed or 

 pinnatifid (pinnate in Lycopersicum) exstipulate leaves. Fls. 

 regular 2-sexual in lateral or terminal axillary or often 

 extra-axillary cymes, sometimes with additional solitary 



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